The gnat is older than man: global environment and human agenda
Why is the environment deteriorating in so many worrisome ways? What can be done about it? The author, a teacher of international environmental law, presents a clear and balanced overview of the perils facing the global environment, including climate change, deforestation, disappearance of wetlands,...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Why is the environment deteriorating in so many worrisome ways? What can be done about it? The author, a teacher of international environmental law, presents a clear and balanced overview of the perils facing the global environment, including climate change, deforestation, disappearance of wetlands, threats to biodiversity, toxic waste, and stresses on marine resources. Meeting these challenges would be hard enough in the best of circumstances. But Christopher Stone shows how the difficulties are compounded by the demands of the poor nations not to be denied the benefits of development - even if that means, as it often will, extra expense if the environment is not to suffer. This is not yet another doomsday book. Readers have been bombarded with too many "dire conjectures . . . unrelieved by any glimpse of solution," the author complains - with the result that the public has been overwhelmed by a sense of confusion and fatalism The ordinary reader will find Stone's own response both clarifying and uniquely positive. He argues that some undoubtedly serious perils, such as global warming, have probably drawn disproportionate attention, while far more immediate and lethal - but also more practically correctable - hazards, such as the looming worldwide shortage of clean water and the lingering threat of shoddy eastern European nuclear reactors, have too often gone ignored. Stone proceeds to show that there is no one "silver bullet" for all these ills - not even (although he supports it) population control. He reviews a panoply of devices that should be considered, among them special pollution taxes, loans to poor countries conditioned on preservation of threatened ecosystems, and tradable fisheries quotas. Strategic options are not lacking The problem Stone tackles is one of matching: what sorts of institutional responses are best suited to what sorts of environmental problems? Along with critiques of existing practices, the author advances two major new policy recommendations: first, a system of Guardians to represent otherwise voiceless elements in the environment, such as species and habitats in the high seas; and second, a Global Commons Trust Fund based on the notion that the atmosphere, oceans, and space are the common property of all humankind |
| Beschreibung: | XXV, 341 S. |
| ISBN: | 0691032505 |
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| 520 | 3 | |a The ordinary reader will find Stone's own response both clarifying and uniquely positive. He argues that some undoubtedly serious perils, such as global warming, have probably drawn disproportionate attention, while far more immediate and lethal - but also more practically correctable - hazards, such as the looming worldwide shortage of clean water and the lingering threat of shoddy eastern European nuclear reactors, have too often gone ignored. Stone proceeds to show that there is no one "silver bullet" for all these ills - not even (although he supports it) population control. He reviews a panoply of devices that should be considered, among them special pollution taxes, loans to poor countries conditioned on preservation of threatened ecosystems, and tradable fisheries quotas. Strategic options are not lacking | |
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Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Chapter I
Diagnosis: The Earth Has Cancer, and the Cancer Is Man 3
In the Doctor s Judgment 3
Diagnosis at Rio 5
A Second, Less Foreboding Opinion 18
Prognosis: Social Choice in the Face of Uncertainty 26
Chapter II
The Condition of the Earth from the Legal Perspective 33
Astronaut and Diplomat 33
A Nation s Abuse of Its Own Environment 37
Chapter III
Transboundary Pollution 50
The Preventive Techniques ¦ 52
The Reactive Techniques / 57
Consensual Transboundary Pollution 66
Summary 69
Chapter IV
Managing the Global Commons 71
A Nation s Internal Activities Damaging the Commons / 72
A Nation s Activities on the Commons Damaging the Commons 88
A Nation s Activities on the Commons Damaging Another Nation 94
Chapter V
Treaties as Antidotes 96
The Virtues of a Treaty Based Approach 96
The Impediments to Treaty Formation 98
CONTENTS
Under What Circumstances are International Negotiations :
Likely to Succeed? 116
Conclusion 119
Chapter VI
The Economist s Prescriptions: Taxes and Tradable Permits 122
The Economic Ideal 123
Institutionalizing the Economic Ideal 129
Pro Rata Cutbacks 132
Effluent Taxes 134
Tradable Emissions Permits 141
Conclusion 149
Chapter VII
Medicating the Earth: Preventatives and Remedies 153
Need Our Responses Be Fully Global? 154
Is Prevention Better than Cure? 159
The Deferred, Go It Alone Policy as a Second Best Strategy 160
A Review of the Home Grown Remedies 162
The New Generation of Legislation 174
Chapter VIII
Taking Out Calamity Insurance 182
The Application of Conventional Insurance to Climate Change 187
Modes of Government Participation 192
The International Precedents and Prospects 197
Alternative Insurance 198
Chapter IX
Paying the Bills: Toward a Global Commons
Trust Fund 201
The Global Financing Options 203
The Global Commons Trust Fund 208
Financing Options in the Light of Domestic
Policy Alternatives 220
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CONTENTS
The Virtues and Vices of Global Funds: The Donors
versus the Democrats 226
Conclusion 233
Chapter X
The Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of the Environmental
Crisis: Of Humankind and Gnats 235
The Spiritual Roots of the Environmental Crisis 235
The Moral Dimensions 242
What Does an Environmental Ethic Aim For? 268
The Arguments against an Environmental Ethic 271
The Burdens an Environmental Ethic Faces 276
One Further Level of Abstraction: The Metaphysical Underpinnings 278
Notes 281
Index to Topics and Institutions 331
Index to Authors 337
Index to Conventions 340
Index to Legal Cases 341
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